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Blaenporth and Aberporth War Memorial

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NPRN419535
Map ReferenceSN25SE
Grid ReferenceSN2660050640
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityAberporth
Type Of SiteWAR MEMORIAL
Period20th Century
Description

A war memorial sculpted in the early 1920's and dedicated in situ in 1922 to the men of the parishes of Blaenporth and Aberporth who died in two world wars. The memorial was sculpted by Messrs T. Jones and J. Thomas Jones and is located above Aberporth, just inside the entrance to Hen Gapel cemetery on the B4333 road which links Aberporth with Blaenporth. A marble statue of a soldier mourning, rifle reversed, mounted on a polished, slightly tapered grey granite plinth chamfered at top, set on a square, pale granite base, chamfered at top with decorated recessed side panels. All four sides of the plinth are inscribed.
West and south faces: names of the fallen in the First World War.
East and north faces: names of the fallen of the Second World War.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 5 November 2013